As technology has grown and expanded, human bodies have remained mostly static he notes.

'If we told our ancestors in the Stone Age about our lives today, they would think we are already Gods,' Harari said. 'But the truth is that even though we have developed more sophisticated tools, we are the same animals.'

Though Harari's ideas may sound outlandish, some of technology's leaders have already begun to home in on connecting the human brain with machines.

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's neauralink has received tens of millions of dollars in funding to research a viable brain to computer interface that Musk hopes could improve memory or restore limb functionality in the disabled.

Likewise, the U.S. Department of Defense's advanced researche arm, DARPA, is funding research that could give a future generation of soldiers the power to control machines and weapons with their minds.'